Professor Builds Steampunk Theremin for Playing ‘Electric Western’ Music

Lorin Parker’s all-vintage, no solid-state theremin is as close to a recreation of Leon Theremin’s original 1919 design as possible.

Parker unveiled it with a host of other new instruments at Maker Faire as part of a new project, Electric Western, a collaboration with his wife, Sarah Seeling, whose voice you can hear in the video doling out instructions.